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Samsung Debuts Thin Galaxy Tab S With Super AMOLED 2560X1600 Display
MojoKid (1002251) writes Samsung unveiled its latest flagship tablet, the Galaxy Tab S, at an event in New York City tonight, and the new device is thin, lightweight, and sports a killer Super AMOLED display. Samsung boasts that the Galaxy Tab S's 2560x1600 display has 73% better color reproduction than conventional LCD displays and can match colors up to 94% of "nature's true palette" with deeper blacks and a 100,000:1 contrast ratio. The 10.5-inch device weighs just 467g and measures a mere 6.6mm in thickness (and there's an 8.4-inch version, too). Under the hood, the Galaxy Tab S features Android KitKat 4.4, 3GB of RAM, 16GB or 32GB of storage with a microSD slot that supports up to 128GB. The front camera is 2.1MP and the rear 8MP camera has an LED flash. No word on the exact processor on board just yet, other than it's a quad-core SoC. It's likely a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 though an Exynos variant or perhaps even Tegra 4 wouldn't be beyond the realm of possibility.
"The 10.5-inch device weighs just 467g and measures a mere 6.6mm in thickness" ...
id get one but I'm gay so I have to buy apple
wow thats .... unhelpful
These tablets sure look nice. The main downsides seem to be (i) price and (ii) Samsung's customized TouchWiz UI (so you gotta wait for custom ROMs).
But the question in my mind is the following: how do these differ from the TabPro tablets? They look quite similar to me... Thoughts?
I think parent was merely pointing out that this seems like a legitimately cool product, as opposed to, "here's our existing product with a new name!"
I want... similar drool inducing screen specs to make it into the bigger screens, where ultra-high resolutions actualy make sense. The choice in TVs and monitors with resolutions that exceed HD is still decidedly poor. On tablets, a high resolution helps especially when reading for longer periods of time, but I couldn't care less about black levels or color reproduction. Again, such features are more important for bigger screens.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
You have a *lot* more disposable income that me. Childless?
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If it can match colors up to 94% of "nature's true palette" , maybe it could be used to display a test for tetrachromate people ?
I always wanted to make such a test, but I was quite difficult with real pigments.
I hope some application will try to make such a test, it would be amazing !
Sure! Who needs kids when there's 7 billion of us worthless fucks already here!
match colors up to 94% of "nature's true palette"
I assume they actually mean 94% of the colours humans can see - unless this thing can spit out X-rays.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
It doesn't even mean a single goddam objective thing.
I own the Tab 2 and it's a great device - but the poor black contrast lets it down, particularly when watching video. On my Galaxy S4 mobile the blacks (eg, dark scenes or fade to black in movie) are pure black, better than iPhone and others .. whereas on the Tab2 they're distinctly grey due to the LCD backlight. Super AMOLED is superb.
But without anything like iTunes behind it.
Not having iTunes sounds like a feature...they should charge a premium.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those,
Running Hadoop, one must suppose.
For NoSQL's the buzzword everyone knows,
Though dropping ACID many further problems can pose.
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Under the hood, the Galaxy Tab S features Android KitKat 4.4, 3GB of RAM, 16GB or 32GB of storage with a microSD slot that supports up to 128GB.
But hey, at least we know what the screen size is!
This hardware must be so hot, internal chip specs are not required.
Instead, it's "Here's a new product with the same name".
They've got too many products out there called "Galaxy".
Android is Linux, dumbass.
The video in the linked article had more that a word on cost :). $499 for the 10", can't remember the other.
Here's a direct link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Never happened. True story.
You jest, but I would love to have something available in the open source world that can:
- Hold all of my media
- Curate it (rankings, playlists, etc.)
- Make it available on my various mobile devices and computers
- Make it available on my TV
- Let me play it over remote, synchronized speakers.
- Change ratings from my mobile devices
Right now I can't do all of those things, and so I end up stuck in iTunes. I run Subsonic, which does a lot of that, but does not allow per-file rankings and does not play over remote speakers. Well, technically I got a single set of remote speakers to work using an open source airplay tool, but it loses the synchronization and is a PITA to switch target speakers. I run Plex, which is great and has some good mobile tools - but does not have remote speaker or curator tools on par with iTunes. Things move fast, so maybe I'm just not keeping up - but I would love to ditch iTunes. It forces me to keep an old Mac running 24/7. Yes, I could move it to a newer PC but I already have the Mac, so...
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"certified MS expert" = You don't know shit?
If a robot is moving quickly with it then you can say it "runs on android".
Some of what I say is fact, some is conjecture, the rest I'm just blowing out my ass...you guess.
A feature to us, perhaps (although it's not that difficult to get non iTunes files onto an iPad), but to the average consumer? If it isn't priced aggressively it will have trouble competing against the iPad.
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Were only the interface not a steaming pile of laggy shit, I would agree with you. But, oh, the torture of actually trying to curate a collection of anything but consumer audio in iTunes (and even just audio in iTunes) has made me long for the days of frustrating Media Monkey add-ons. I use iTunes because I have iDevices, but it sucks so bad I've done essentially nothing with mu library organization since I switched 5 years ago. And don't even get me started on video - I can't even use video on my portables - Apple decided with the last update to eliminate the titles, so all I have of my collection is a screen cap of the first few seconds of video - a hundred different views of the Universal or Fox or Disney logo. Dumb shits. Not to mention that, afaik, you can't stream from your library to a portable device (though you can to ATVs, which can be nice, but nowhere near as user friendly/useful as, say, Plex).
iTunes is probably useful if you purchased everything - and only commercial - audio from Apple iTMS, like/agree with their tagging standards, and listen casually. That may be a lot of folks, but it certainly isn't my use case.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
They say "94% of nature's true palette" yet it still cannot reproduce a single shade of octarine...
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Why is there such an incredible number of advertisements for products like this on Slashdot these days? Surely no one actually considers it news that the latest model of some commodity consumer electronics product has a faster processor and more compact form factor than its predecessor.
I agree that the interface is lacking, and I'd even be willing to run multiple (compatible) solutions. I just can't find anything with the same capabilities. I really, really would like to switch. I was hoping that "MagicPlay" would help fill the gap, but I never heard another word after the initial flurry of announcements a year ago.
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Android is Linux, dumbass.
Yeah, but crippled by a crappy GUI designed for a 3" screen and hands that can't touch type or use a pencil.
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
Samsung has been on a real kick lately with locked bootloaders.
Fuck any company that tries to limit what I can do with my possessions.
Until they prove that this new tablet is easily rootable, so that you can do what you want on it, no self-respecting nerd should buy this.
(And before any smartass pipes up with "customers are leasing it, not buying it" yeah yeah, you are very clever, but you and I both know that's horseshit.)
Does this have a removable battery?
I've stopped buying consumer electronics that take the markedly ANTI-consumer and needless action of making non-removable batteries. I realize this eliminates most tablets* but I really have little use for a tablet (my job has provided several for me to use but I really couldn't care less about them, having tried them).
* - And all Apple hardware, but I'm ok with that too.
The best hardware in the world is useless without software.
If the software sucks, the hardware doesn't matter.
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So use a bluetooth keyboard. The GUI is actually rather good. It sounds almost as if - heaven forbid - you don't actually know what you're talking about...
after only a few years of operation, there is a noticeable dimness to the screen, so that it is unusable in daylight.
I've read that AMOLED displays degrade quickly in their brightness.
Great for you if you are a company wanting to sell me a new phone every two years. Sucks for the consumer who might want to keep their phone 5 or even 8 years like I kept my last pre-smartphone.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Sounds like the services google provides, except for this:
Let me play it over remote, synchronized speakers.
Which is called "bluetooth".
Android has the benefit of not needing to be plugged in to do a lot of it, too.
Unfortunately, it seems your brain is to puny to understand math and the objective measures that are used to measure colour reproduction.
You must be from one of those countries with third world education systems.
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
The link I provided explains what I was talking about: the galaxy S5 from AT&T or verizon is, in fact, locked down, and Samsung isn't doing anything about it. There's a $10K bounty for a workaround, but it's almost been two months.
It may have been part of their strategy, but it seems with their "knox" development that they'd rather try to market their devices as totally secure, even if that means secure against users themselves.
It's good for a small-screen touch GUI. It can get irritating on a screen big enough that you *could* have 2 apps tiled side by side, with a floating music player miniwindow in the corner, if only it would let you. Sure, there's a few apps that can make a floating window, but this is a tiny minority. Besides, even on a ~10" touchscreen the "floating windows over a desktop" design is irritating. The ability to tile normal apps that usually run fullscreen would be great.
Bluetooth keyboards? Yeah, they're nice, but quite often unless you're using an on-screen keyboard that explicitly supports them, the keyboard app pops up anyway. Or my favorite: SwiftKey, which recognizes that you're using an external keyboard and hides its on-screen one, but still autocorrects what you type based on how you type on a touchscreen. And then there's how long it took Android to make the ctrl key work like a normal modifier and not like sticky keys. Also, near complete lack of keyboard shortcuts. I shouldn't need to lift my hands from the keyboard and mess with the touchscreen to do simple things like save, undo, switch between two text entry apps, or even just send a chat message.
App switching gets irritating as well. I haven't tried it on a TouchWiz device, but the usual procedure is to long-press home until an app list comes up. This is slower and more tedious than tabbing through apps on a desktop OS. Then add in that apps get frozen when tabbed away from, and sometimes inexplicably quit altogether. Yes, this is ultimately the fault of the app developer, but it really shouldn't be necessary to write a daemon to make an app that can do stuff while you're not looking at it, or do your own state saving to make an app not reset to its main menu should the OS decide to page it out of memory. It seems even Google themselves can't get this stuff right: Gmail *always* quits and has to reload when I switch to another app, and whenever I open Play Store it seems like it's about 50/50 whether it's going to show me the last thing I looked at or the main menu.
Desktop OSes have done all this stuff seamlessly for a decades. On a PC, if I minimize something I can 100% trust that it is still there and doing anything I asked it to do, even if I can't see it. Android has repeatedly taught me to change this assumption.
As for "Android is Linux", yes it is, and I really appreciate that. But that still doesn't fix that its command line is crippled and horrible in comparison. It's like normal *nix command line, minus a handful of the more useful commands, and with others missing options or modified not to produce useful output. Among other things, I have seen an ifconfig that never prints anything, and an rm that complains about the file -rf not existing.
iTunes is the worst bloatware i have laid my eyes on it's even more bloated than Windows Media Player
You have a *lot* more disposable income that me. Childless?
The term "childless" is offensive and discriminatory.
The proper term is "child-free".
What are you talking about? They specifically allow boot loader replacement. Custom ROMs are part of Samsung's strategy.
Samsung has been locking bootloaders lately. One of the more annoying tactics is to release a new device with an open bootloader, then lock it for subsequent production runs / the first minor revision under the same SKU. This means if you buy your device months after it's out, you've got a chance of getting a locked bootloader. Same goes for if you have to get your device repaired or replaced under warranty. Happened to my friend's S5. Now he's done with Samsung, and I don't blame him. My guess is that once enough of the carriers demand locked bootloaders, they just lock it for all subsequent production runs.
Then you're stuck hunting for an older version, hoping that you can get the radios to work on your carrier, muddling through setting up APNs and changing baked-in shit - from carrier boot up animations to voice mail numbers, etc. And then you'll never receive an OTA update from your carrier, so you'll be stuck on Android X.Y.Z when everyone else is on X.W.U , leaving you with missing features and glaring security holes until someone hacks the bootloader, dumps a legit updated ROM, illegally disseminates it over the internet, and provides you with instructions on how to get all the various pieces to get yourself a working, updated phone.
I'm truly sick of Android, but there's no other viable option.
You're bitching that a smart car is horrible for hauling goods cross country.
Google's services are nice, but have several limitations:
- Library supports music only
- Library is limited to 20,000 songs
- I'm just as tied to a proprietary solution as I am with iTunes.
Which is called "bluetooth".
That's not the functionality I want. I'm looking for something like Sonos or Airplay offers. I can put a Sonos box (expensive) or Airport Express (cheap) in each room where I want music. Then I can select which rooms I want to play the music (say, deck and living room) and the music will be in sync so that you don't get a weird echo effect. MagicPlay was supposed to be an open-source version of this but I don't see any activity.
iTunes has the additional fun feature at parties where I can give anyone with Wifi access to the iTunes library and they can vote for music while iTunes is in DJ mode. It's not critical, but it is fun. I have an Android app that lets me do this from my phone.
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Thanks to Unity, Linux now has the same problem. Please can I have xfce on my SGS3!
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"features" and "bugs" may be the same thing in Microsoft's world, but to the rest of us, they are completely different things.
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I've come to accept "Galaxy" as their equivalent to the "i" that Apple appends to everything rather than seeing "Galaxy" as one specific product line.
I agree. Fancy features like the OP mentioned are worthless if the app itself sucks at doing its primary function. Laggy, bloated, ad-laden, crippled, non extensible, garbage. When it is horrible at managing music, I cant see the point of giving a damn about remote ratings.
Behold, the latest wonder from Asus. UltraHD in a 28" screen for $650 at NewEgg. Limit 2 per customer. (No, they're not paying me to post this. I wish they were.)
Yeah it's a TN panel, but the reviews show it can manage a standard color gamut better than pretty much any TN panel before it, while still benefiting from the TN design in its response time. It claims 1 ms grey to grey transition. Off angle viewing is better than many TN panels as well. And with the DisplayPort connection, it's capable of 60Hz vertical refresh at full resolution, something HDMI can't do until the new HDMI spec is finalized. It has one DisplayPort connector and two HDMI connectors (including one MDL-capable). Full range of display stand flexibility, including height, tilt, swivel and 90 degree rotation. Built-in picture-in-picture using multiple inputs simultaneously, or side-by-side mode from multiple inputs. Those last two being funky features I never even considered, but I'm not complaining.
It's undoubtedly not the last word in UltraHD, but it's a FINE entrant in the race.
I would have to disagree that things like color and contrast ratio don't matter on portable displays. Why does one system matter more than the other? I see plenty of color critical applications for tablets and phone just as I do for desktops. Also I greatly prefer that the technology irons out it's bugs on a small cheap disposable device before I drop $2000 on a desktop monitor that will last me 8 years like my current one.
Start small, get it perfected, increase the size. A perfectly valid development method.
You can attach a trailer to a Smart.
I agree, writing all android phones off is nonsense. However, Samsung does do what GP said, the unlocked versions are more expensive and not subsidized. And samsung IS the dominant manufacturer in android phones. The galaxy S5 would be a GREAT phone if they didn't pointlessly lock it down.
And with the DisplayPort connection, it's capable of 60Hz vertical refresh at full resolution, something HDMI can't do until the new HDMI spec is finalized.
It's already finalized: HDMI 2.0